- The loopback MCP server moves from Director into libs/ai/services (mcp::server); Director re-exports it, its lane tokens and tests unchanged. The dispatcher now names the server and its instructions; a TokenStore can live in memory only (ephemeral).
- mcp::host: while Claude Desktop is the provider the panel serves its registry's tools (service__tool names) on an ephemeral 127.0.0.1 port with a fresh bearer token, and writes ~/.makepad/mcp/<exe-stem>.json {pid, port, token, title} (0600 in a 0700 dir), removed when the provider changes or the panel goes. Calls queue to the UI thread and run through EngineCore::call_external: a card in the transcript, destructive calls held for the person's confirm (the pane opens for it), the result sent back when the card lands.
- mcp::mcpb: "Connect to Claude Desktop" writes <exe-stem>.mcpb (a stored zip, manifest_version 0.3, binary server = this executable with --mcp) and opens it so Claude Desktop shows its install dialog.
- platform mcp_relay: `<app> --mcp`, checked first in app_main before any Cx, window, GPU or audio, relays newline JSON-RPC on stdio to the running app's endpoint. It answers initialize/ping itself and tools/list from the app's last list while the app is down, starts the app (detached, MAKEPAD_AI_PROVIDER=claude-desktop, engine up with the pane closed) on the first call that needs it, waits up to 20 s for its file, and exits when stdin closes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A test is a ci.splash beside what it tests; the script decides every input and the model only ever judges one picture against one acceptance text. mod.ci: launch (hidden, --remote, user_seq preserved), key, type_text, click, get, snap, wait_log (a * is a gap inside one line), no_errors, grab, quit; step, sleep, check, run; cargo, check_targets (the cargo makepad check matrix, check only for platforms we are not on, a test fails if the two tables drift), test, build, machine (another box over the makepad tunnel), exclusive; judge, accept, ask. The watcher polls git ls-remote once a minute for work and any extra branches, syncs a checkout the CI owns, runs the root script first and alone, then the rest up to a parallel limit behind one shared model judge. The window is a wall of squares, one per script: green passed, orange warnings, red failures, with a detail panel for the selected one.
Scripts: the root ci.splash (workspace check with core warnings denied, the tests), apps/wm (desktop up, switch to macOS by Cmd+Space / type / Return, launch the terminal and the browser, each waited for by the WM's own first-frame line), and one per main app in the default shape. Proven here: apps/wm/ci.splash green in 280 s, fifteen target checks and seven vision verdicts.
Models come from Hugging Face through the hub: registry entries qwen3.5-4b-vision and qwen3.5-9b-vision with exact revisions, sizes and digests, and hub-install, a command line over LocalModels::start_install. vlm-probe reads PNG.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The child draws its frame through a texture pass, which on GL renders through an inverted projection, so its glReadPixels rows come in picture order already; the host keeps them as they are, and the two run views sample the texture as stored on every path. The old shader flip on the software path inverted it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every manifest `app_main!` emitted carried three fonts no theme role uses:
`NewCMMath-Regular.otf` for `MathView`, and `Inter.ttf` / `RobotoFlex.ttf` for the opt-in
iOS and Android platform styles. That was 3.6 MB in every package, and it only existed
because a font an app forgot to declare failed silently: `FontFamily::update_font_definitions`
skipped a member whose bytes never arrived, so the text showed as boxes with no log line.
* Drop the forced extras. The manifest is now the font set's fallback chain plus whatever
the app puts in `font_assets`, which is what makepad's own apps already did for `Inter`.
* `font_assets` takes expressions, and `INTER_FONT_ASSET` / `ROBOTO_FLEX_FONT_ASSET` join
`MATH_VIEW_FONT_ASSET`, so an app declares a font by name instead of by path.
* A font that never loads now logs one `error!` naming the path and the fix. A missing
member still degrades gracefully: the family keeps its remaining members.
* The apps that use those fonts declare them: the `wm` family binds both platform faces,
`clock`, `weather` and `director` draw with Inter and can select any style, `terminal`
and the builder use Inter for symbols, `splash` and `aichat` use `MathView`.
Squash of 8 work commits (Sep 2–10):
7b9ed2c aichat: the assistant as an app — the panel owns the engine, the bus client, settings with the local-only lock
e0c6e74 aichat: the progress bar and system lines use the theme's highlight colour
8b46ce0 aichat: the composer's hint is a dark grey Ask AI, not the typed colour
b99a631 toml_parser, rust_tokenizer: rewrite both for the code analyser
3bbcea2 aichat: add Studio evaluation-feedback widget
b61845f studio: Architecture view, the third workspace mode
d7a76cf studio: add bounded code context and source APIs
524142a Split Studio into makepad director (public) and makepad scope (private)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
